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Linux United. No more Distro Wars.

Lets put the distro wars to an end and all work together. I know we may work on different distros, packages, and repos but as long as we don't put each other down or say we are better than others we stand a fighting chance.

One thing I’ve learned the hard way threw several
business deals
and by trying to release my own distro is that you should not bash
other distros, people, or companies that do you wrong. I know that
there needs to be a place like the BBB where anyone can find out the
truth about a business or organization. This is not my job. My job is
to provide a product that people can use and tell what cool new
features it has. I’m even thinking about getting rid of my
Microsoft bashing page. Of course I’ll be thinking about that
a lot
before I do it. PayPal may have stole money from me but I
didn’t
need to bash their company name by spreading the recordings over the
Internet. I should have just reported it to the authorities like I
already have and waited for a response. I do find it hard to
apologize to PayPal for doing this because I don’t feel like
I owe
them an apology. I almost bashed another community online because
they rejected me. I decided to do this post instead.

In the future I intend on just staying positive and leaving it
to
others that want to bash people. I’m not saying its right
I’m
just saying that word will get out. Justice will be served.
It’s
just not my job to do it.

I know about the distro war that has been holding the Linux
community back. Ubuntu is a prime example of this war. (not to bash
them just for an example) Their community has made it clear to me
several times that they should be the only distro for desktop users
to clear up confusion between distros because their distro is the
best one and it’s the easiest to use. This is the kind of
attitude
that will bring us all down. Do I believe that my distro is better
than Ubuntu? Yes I do for the purpose of giving my customers what
they want. Does Ubuntu have more hardware support? Yes. I would use
Ubuntu if no other distro had the drivers I needed. But am I going to
say that everyone should use it instead of all other distros and that
all other distros should be out of the picture? NO! If it
weren’t
for Vixta I would have never gotten the idea for the interface, if it
hadn’t been for PCLinuxOS I would have never found a stable
base,
if it hadn't been for Ubuntu I would have never understood the
frustration people have been going threw trying to learn the new GUI
(Gnome). I give all the credit for my project to the rest of the
Linux community and Jesus Christ. The ideas I had for Ultumix
didn’t
come from me. These ideas came from other distros and from the
knowledge that God has given me. I am very thankful to be a part of
something bigger and I don’t ask for credit. All I ask is
that you
help support the project if you like the distro.

Linux users have a couple complaints about my distro. One is
the
fact that all the icons for the most commonly used apps are on the
desktop making it cluttered, another is that I have bad graphics,
another complaint is that I don’t give enough credit to
PCLinuxOS.

Windows users complained in the past that in Linux you
can’t
find the programs your after (thats why I put them on the desktop).

At this point I will accept any constructive criticism but
before
you complain please add a solution at the bottom of your complaint if
you are a non-windows user.

I think that one stable distro that can use all the packages
from
all distros should bring all the communities together.

Ultumix’s main goal in the beginning was to bring
all the
distros, repos, and package types together into one distro that
everyone could use for whatever purpose they wanted. PCLinuxOS is
just a very good base to start from because the packages are so
stable and there is an acceptable amount of variety in their repos.
The things that PCLinuxOS does not enable you to do threw the GUI is
install RPM files downloaded from the net and install debain
packages. I would not expect it to allow debian packages to work
anyway and that is still a problem in Ultumix v0.0.0.4.

After getting all but one bug out of the system (the Grub
picture)
and making sure I didn’t have any offensive non-free packages
installed
I released Ultumix v0.0.0.4. Some don’t want me to call it a
distro but
rather a remaster of PCLinuxOS. Both are correct. Some say that I need
to break away more from PCLinuxOS first and thats ok. They can call me
a simple remaster until then if they like. It’s like saying
GNU/Linux
or Linux. Does it matter? GNU/Linux contains GNU Software. Linux is the
Kernel. Nuf said.